The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-01-26

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LANSING, Jan. 10, 1887.
Both houses met promptly for tho second
week of the session on Tuesday evening,
when President Macdonald announced his
list of standing committees. Speaker
Marley, however, was not ready with his
Thursday. Both lists give general salts
faction, so far as it is possible to make
such conflicting interests harmonic. Both
presiding officers have evidently tried to
make fair and just assignments, and both
have succeeded reasonably well in SO
doing.
PROHIBITORY AMENDMENT PASSED.
AS early in the session as the 18th the
House took up the prohibitory constitu-
tional amendment and passed it without
debate or opposition blythe handsome vote
of yeas "a, nays u, only ca votes being re-
quired TO give it the necessary two-thirds
vote. Only one of all the Republicans vot-
ing voted no, and that one was Representa-
tive Bettinger, of Wayne, while nine flu
sionists voted yes. The amendment pro-
vides for its submission to the people for
their verdict at the election to be held on
the first Monday in April next. The joint
resolution was promptly sent to the Senate,
but did not reach there early enough in the
week to make much progress toward its
passage by that body. 1t was reported ia
vorably by the Committee on the Liquor
Traffic and placed on the general order,
where it will be reached as early next week
as full Senate can be gathered together.
1t needs twenty-five votes to pass it
there, and the Republicans have twenty
three members, but Senator Seymour, who
represents the Sac District, says his
district is made up of lake ports and lake
interests so largely that the wishes
of his immediate constituents bind
him stronger than the Republican
platform on which he ran
and was elected, and so he cannot vote for
it. or he did not when in the Senate in 1888.
If, then, those twenty-five stand together it
will still pass, but Senator Hubbell, who
voted for the proposition two years ago, is
as yet undecided as to which way he will
vote Senator Barripger is the only Fus-
ionist whom the Republicans have any hope
of securing for the measure, SO the fate Of
the amendment is just now very evenly
balanced. 1t is more than likely to pass,
and that within week. If so, it will set
tie long pettionedfor question.
WANTS LUCE's SCALP.
Henry Chamberlain, who has long been
was candidate for Governor against Gov
ernor Bagley in 1874, is after Governor
Luce's scalp, and has memoralized the
Legislature to impeach him on the ground
that when he took the oath as Governor
he was yet holding the Office of member of
the State Board of Agriculture, which he
should have resigned to Governor Alger,
but didn't. The Constitution provides that
no man holding one State office Is eligible
to another, but Governor Luce claims that
he has the best authority for the belief that
the acceptance of a higher Office vacates
the lower, and that he has not therefore
attempted to hold two offices, and that
he had given up the other before he took
the Govemorship, and had notified the
Chairman of the Board of Agriculture that
| n vacancy existed in the board. The
House refused TO act on the memorial of
Mr.. Chamberlain, and promptly tabled it
as too trivial to be worthy of consideration,
but at Governor Luce's request it has since
been taken from the table and referred to
| the Judiciary Committee, who will no doubt
report that there are no grounds for inn
| parchment proceedings such as the memo
rialist asks for.
MINOR REEERENCES.
Politicians are beginning to come to the
Legislature asking for the amendment to
| the Constitution allowing the people to
vote on the proposition of doing away with
the provision that limits Sheritfs of coun-
lies to two continuous terms, on the ground
| that until man learns the duties of the
position he isn't very efficient Sheriff, and
! not we'll up in the ways of thwarting ras-
calls in their evil deeds. and that by the
time he learns to be good and useful Off
Ger the Constitution requires that new
| and untried man must succeed him.
The pressure for official positions within
| the gift of the two houses of the Legisla-
| ture was never as great or so persistent as
Mt the opening Of the present session, and
when zone is taken and the other left"
that left one feels just cause for mourn
ing-and he nouns.
There has for some time been feeling
| that the Senate Committee on Railroads
| consisting of three members) was too
small. and So on motion of Senator Sharp,
| of jackson, that and the Committee on La
! Dor Interests have been ordered enlarged 70
five members. The additional names have
not. however, been announced as yet, but
! it is thought that Senators Sharp and At
wood of Flint will be the additional men,
bers of the railroad committee.
The usual grist Of bills to jump aspiring
villages up into cities are beginning TO
come in freely. Quite number of them
will no doubt pass.
Ex-Governor Alger has sent message
to the Legislature as required by law, re-
garding the pardons granted during his two
years term, and the reason in each case.
The list covers forty eight pardons, as
against seventy-five by Governor Begole,
in 1851, and thirty-nne by Governor Je-
rome, in 1872.
In reappointing Mrs. Harriet a. Tenney
to the responsible position of State Libra
rian, which she has filled with such emf
nent satisfaction to everybody who has had
occasion to visit the library, or ask her for
information on any subject, she enters
now upon her tenth term, having served for
eighteen years, and the verdict of the peo-
pie is, serves her right" Her place could
hardly be filled by another.
The 10Th inst is set a ide as n special
time for the presentation of appropriate
resolutions and eulogistic proceedings on
the death of Representative Ovid \. Carr,
of Wayne, for the past four years valua-
BILE member of the House, and member
elect of the present House.
MORE STATE OFFICERS.
Governor Luce on the 18th sent to the
Senate appointments for about l 800 No